Archives|BRITISH SMASH SALIENT SOUTH OF YPRES; TAKE 5,000 PRISONERS IN RESISTLESS RUSH AFTER MINES DESTROY MESSINES RIDGE; HAIG STRIKES AT NEW POINT Positions Held by Germans 2 Years Are Won in a Few Hours.EXPLOSIONS GIVE SIGNALMillion Pounds of ExplosivesAre Set Off, Then Guns BeginFiercest Fire of War.AND ARMY SWEEPS FORWARDMessines, Wytschaete, Oosttaverne, and Other Points Captured from the Dazed Foe. Biggest Attack Since Vimy. Official Accounts of Successes. Says Ypres Is Avenged. Take Positions on Schedule. FRENCH BEAT OFF FOE. Strong German Attack Near St. Quentin Is Repulsed. NEW AIR RAID ON BELGIUM. British Naval Aviators Drop Bombs on Nieumunster Aerodrome. NO TIME FOR FRANCE TO TIRE. Cambon Says the Government Is Assured of Victory with Our Aid.

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BRITISH SMASH SALIENT SOUTH OF YPRES; TAKE 5,000 PRISONERS IN RESISTLESS RUSH AFTER MINES DESTROY MESSINES RIDGE; HAIG STRIKES AT NEW POINT Positions Held by Germans 2 Years Are Won in a Few Hours.EXPLOSIONS GIVE SIGNALMillion Pounds of ExplosivesAre Set Off, Then Guns BeginFiercest Fire of War.AND ARMY SWEEPS FORWARDMessines, Wytschaete, Oosttaverne, and Other Points Captured from the Dazed Foe. Biggest Attack Since Vimy. Official Accounts of Successes. Says Ypres Is Avenged. Take Positions on Schedule. FRENCH BEAT OFF FOE. Strong German Attack Near St. Quentin Is Repulsed. NEW AIR RAID ON BELGIUM. British Naval Aviators Drop Bombs on Nieumunster Aerodrome. NO TIME FOR FRANCE TO TIRE. Cambon Says the Government Is Assured of Victory with Our Aid.

LONDON, June 7.--By a terrific blow south of Ypres today, preceded by gigantic mine operations and accompanied by the most intense artillery fire of the war, General Haig's troops smashed in the strong German salient which for two and a half years had dominated the British positions from the Messines-Wytschaete Ridge.View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on June 8, 1917, on Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: BRITISH SMASH SALIENT SOUTH OF YPRES; TAKE 5,000 PRISONERS IN RESISTLESS RUSH AFTER MINES DESTROY MESSINES RIDGE; HAIG STRIKES AT NEW POINT Positions Held by Germans 2 Years Are Won in a Few Hours.EXPLOSIONS GIVE SIGNALMillion Pounds of ExplosivesAre Set Off, Then Guns BeginFiercest Fire of War.AND ARMY SWEEPS FORWARDMessines, Wytschaete, Oosttaverne, and Other Points Captured from the Dazed Foe. Biggest Attack Since Vimy. Official Accounts of Successes. Says Ypres Is Avenged. Take Positions on Schedule. FRENCH BEAT OFF FOE. Strong German Attack Near St. Quentin Is Repulsed. NEW AIR RAID ON BELGIUM. British Naval Aviators Drop Bombs on Nieumunster Aerodrome. NO TIME FOR FRANCE TO TIRE. Cambon Says the Government Is Assured of Victory with Our Aid. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe